Zumwalt, the Navy's next destroyer

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hmmm what's in a name anyway.... http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012...warship-being-built-in-maine/?test=latestnews

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From Wiki.

Elmo Russell "Bud" Zumwalt, Jr. (November 29, 1920 – January 2, 2000) was an American naval officer and the youngest man to serve as Chief of Naval Operations. As an admiral and later the 19th Chief of Naval Operations, Zumwalt played a major role in U.S. military history, especially during the Vietnam War. A highly-decorated war veteran, Zumwalt reformed U.S. Navy personnel policies in an effort to improve enlisted life and ease racial tensions. After he retired from a 32-year Navy career, he launched an unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. Senate.


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From Wiki.

Elmo Russell "Bud" Zumwalt, Jr. (November 29, 1920 – January 2, 2000) was an American naval officer and the youngest man to serve as Chief of Naval Operations. As an admiral and later the 19th Chief of Naval Operations, Zumwalt played a major role in U.S. military history, especially during the Vietnam War. A highly-decorated war veteran, Zumwalt reformed U.S. Navy personnel policies in an effort to improve enlisted life and ease racial tensions. After he retired from a 32-year Navy career, he launched an unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. Senate.


Terry

Oh sure, legitimize the name against a Naval legacy... :grin:
 
I thought Adm Zumalt was a good CNO. He issued Z grams, which he used to change policy. He tried to upgrade sailors lives, the way we lived on base and on ships. He was met with a lot of resistance from many "older" sailors.
 
At 7billion a piece those things better be the most bada$$ ships in the universe. As a taxpayer if one of them sinks I'm gonna be pi$$ed.
 
What's the useful life of these ships? About 20 years? Before their technology and design is outdated? That's about 350 million dollars...a year or almost a million dollars a day per ship not including operating costs which must be horrendus even with a cut down crew. We all hope these ships will not need to be used for their primary purpose but if they aren't, that's expensive deterrence no matter which way you cut it!

Terry
 
What's the useful life of these ships? About 20 years? Before their technology and design is outdated? That's about 350 million dollars...a year or almost a million dollars a day per ship not including operating costs which must be horrendus even with a cut down crew. We all hope these ships will not need to be used for their primary purpose but if they aren't, that's expensive deterrence no matter which way you cut it!

Terry

Useful life is potentially 40-50 years. Keep in mind most of the the stuff that wears out, or becomes obsolete, is an add on accessory. For example, the USS Missouri, one of the Iowa class battleships, was commissioned in WWII and saw service in Viet Nam and Desert Storm.

Henry
 
Useful life is potentially 40-50 years. Keep in mind most of the the stuff that wears out, or becomes obsolete, is an add on accessory. For example, the USS Missouri, one of the Iowa class battleships, was commissioned in WWII and saw service in Viet Nam and Desert Storm.

Henry

Key word: *potentially*

This has held true for big, big ships like aircraft carriers and battleships; but as for the smaller and less well known ships -> The *actual* service life (not what they say when the ships are funded) is much shorter. There are very few ships from the cold war era still in the front line navy.
 

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